A Winder man was cited after repeatedly refusing to follow the directions of a Sheriff’s deputy directing traffic in a school zone.

The deputy was directing traffic at County Line Elementary School on Rockwell Church Road when he noticed a silver passenger car approaching his location at a high rate of speed. The deputy was forced to halt traffic exiting the school parking lot when he realized the driver was not slowing despite the deputy’s attempts to signal him to stop.

According to the report, the man finally stopped his vehicle after “he realized that a collision was eminent if he did not.”

The deputy asked for the man’s license and instructed him to wait in the school parking lot until the deputy was finished directing traffic.

After the man pulled into the parking lot, he exited his vehicle and walked towards the deputy. At the time, the deputy was directing four lanes of vehicle traffic.

When the man started to walk into the roadway, the deputy ordered him to stop. The man then entered the intersection and began to argue that he was late for an appointment. The deputy was forced to stop all traffic due to the interruption. The deputy warned the man that if he did not return to his vehicle, he would be arrested for obstruction.

The man reluctantly returned to his vehicle. Once the deputy finished directing school traffic, he cited the man for failure to obey an officer directing traffic and released him.

Other recent incidents investigated by Barrow County Sheriff’s deputies include:

• ordinance violation on Dean Way. A wrecker company was advised not to let their employee park wrecker trucks in his yard.

• speeding complaint on Miller Springs Road. A woman complained that a red Ford pickup and a red Ford Focus drive extremely fast through the neighborhood around the times that school begins and ends.

• burglary on Atlanta Highway. Two credit cards and two money orders were stolen from a business.

• financial transaction card fraud on Centennial Drive. Nine charges totaling just over $60 were fraudulently made using the victim’s debit card account.

• theft by deception on Loganville Highway. Two stolen garage door openers were sold to the victim.

• harassing phone calls on Atlanta Highway. A woman said her ex-boyfriend has called and threatened to shoot her if she goes outside.

• neighborhood complaint on Centennial Drive. A man called police after his neighbor left plastic bags full of dog excrement in his yard. The neighbor claimed the waste was from the man’s dog and that she had pictures of the dog relieving himself in her yard.

• civil dispute on Turk Road. A grandmother ordered her granddaughter to move out of her home saying she was tired of the granddaughter and the granddaughter’s boyfriend living off her.

• harassing phone calls on Sims Road. A woman said her adult stepchildren were harassing her to gain access to their father’s money. One of the stepchildren said the woman had removed $45,000 from their father’s account and placed it into an account only she could access.

• damage to vehicle on Tom Miller Road. A woman said her Ford Mustang was damaged when she drove over some loose rocks on the roadway in an area where county crews had been working.

• entering auto on Browns Road. A gas cap, hub cap, auto jack and one gallon of gas were stolen from a 1985 Volvo.

• dispute on Harmony Grove Church Road. A woman said she and her 10-year-old son were harassed by a 17-year-old male.

• dispute on Peace Circle. A woman claimed her fiancé’s brother shoved her and caused her to fall.

• theft by taking on Autumn Avenue. A four wheeler was stolen from the residence.

• burglary on Dee Kennedy Road. Jewelry, a television, an Xbox gaming system, a Toshiba laptop and a window air conditioning unit were stolen from the residence.

• financial transaction card fraud on Kendall Park Drive. A man reported that a woman he met at a bar made three unauthorized transactions totaling approximately $40 on his debit card.

• 911 hang up on Natalie Drive. A man said he called 911 to get the number for Gwinnett County 911 so that he could make a complaint about a Gwinnett County police officer speeding on Highway 316.

• abandoned vehicle on Hwy. 316. A man became angry when a deputy impounded his car after the man creating a traffic hazard by abandoning his vehicle in the middle of a turn lane. The man demanded the deputy pay the impound fee. The deputy refused explaining that the man should not have abandoned his vehicle.

• suspicious noise on Harold Day Road. A woman said she hears strange noises coming from her porch each night as she gets ready for bed.

Have you considered that account supplied by the cop might not be the Truth? Of course not, no law officer would dare shade the "facts." Just like the Atlanta cops didn't murder an old lady and then try to cover it up by planting drugs. Closer to home, isn't a former district attorney serving time in the penitentiary for using his high office as a shakedown racket? So, spare me the childish notion that cops are always the exemplars of veracity. But, continue with your deluded thinking. The state wants imbeciles on its juries.

I drove thought when that happend. Guy was driving one of those new muscle cars, I think it was a Challenger, black in color.
He acted like he owned the place. Ya know, It's his world, were just all living in it kinda attitude. I can't stand people like that.

Howard, are still "Mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore?" Your character was really funny in the 1976 movie Network.

Anyway, Howard, comparing this event to the Atlanta killing is ludicrous. It leads one to believe that you have had many run-ins with the law and have developed a jaded sense of right and wrong. You've listened to one to many Jesse Jackson speeches. This event happened in broad daylight in front of tons of people and the officer’s account of the incident seems spot on.

Everyone in Winder knows where the school zones are and that the speed limit is 25mph. If you don't want the hassle of dealing with the traffic and waiting, take another route. Not getting a ticket may be worth driving a few extra miles.

As a parent of a child that attends county line, I am always so relieved to have barrow county deputies out in front of the school directing traffic. That area, because of its congestion, is quite scary and dangerous. The officers that direct traffic put their lives on the line (literally) each and every day. Pouring rain, freezing cold, dark as night, they are there directing so that we can make it to work safely.

Its amazing how totally rotten and arrogant people are today. I wish the guy had been arrested and been a little inconvienenced.

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